VERY GOOD CONDITION

This sale is for a large size vintage hardback edition entitled “Cooper’s Creek,” by Alan Moorehead, with numerous photographic and other illustrations in both COLOUR and black and white, and with an illustrated front endpaper and an endpaper map of Australia with inset map of Central Australia on the back endpaper.

It was published by The Macmillan Company of Australia Pty., Ltd., of North Sydney, Australia, and is the 1977 FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION.

This book tells the story of an expedition pitting incredible courage and bravery against the Australian outback – an area of incredibly high temperatures by day, of dreadful thirst, of mirages; an empty land stretching away silently into infinity.

The Burke and Wills expedition was organised by the Royal Society of Victoria in Australia in 1860–61. It consisted of 19 men led by Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills, with the objective of crossing Australia from Melbourne in the south, to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north, a distance of around 3,250 kilometres (approximately 2,000 miles).  At that time most of the inland of Australia had not been explored by non-Indigenous people and was largely unknown to the European settlers.  In all seven men lost their lives on the Expedition, including Burke and Wallis.

The book measures 10.5 inches x 7.75 inches and has 180 pages + colour illustrations. 

The book is in good, bright and neat condition for its age, with fading to the spine of the otherwise good original dust-jacket, a blank (no name inserted) book-plate at the front and no ink or pencil writings or markings in the book.  The binding is very good with no loose or missing pages.

A wonderfully illustrated vintage edition.

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